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Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 23:48
The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 21:49
For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...

Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:40
The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...

Wayland Color Management For HDR Under Review For Chrome/Chromium

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:21
The latest software with pending Wayland color management support for enabling HDR display support is the open-source Google Chromium code for the Chrome web browser...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 17:57
KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...

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